A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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We live in the richest country in the world. There’s plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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